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HISTORIC COP FOR PIMLICO W00DLAWN VASE TO BE PRESENTED TO WINNING OWNER IN THE PREAKNESS. Will Have Possession cf Noted Piece of Plate for a Year and Then Designate What Club Shall Receive It Year Following. The historic "Woodl.iwn Vase" has Ix-en added to the Preakness, for three -year olda, at one and en. eighth miles. ,000 added, which will lie one of the features of the spring meeting at the Pimlico track. This is a historic piece of plate, and well worth trying for. as the wii:n"r will have possession of the plate for OJK year and then will be given the privilege of naming what racing association in the United States may offer it the succeeding year. The "succeeding year" will be interpreted to mean luring the racing dates of 1918, and each succeeding year thereafter. This beaatlfal silver trophy is historically, if not actually, one of the most, if not the most, valuable "cup" on the American turf. Designed and pio taeed by Tiffany, in 1SI10. to the order of Colonel R. A. Alexander, it was presented, by him, to the Wooillawn Association of Louisville, Ky. It v as won. that year, by Captain Morris great aaam Mollie Jackson, beating Magenra. Sailor and Rettie Ward. The next winner was Idlewild. from tin-stable of the same owner. During the Civil War. the Vase was buried, with the family plate, at Woodlawn. In lStit! it was won by Henry of the West, and. in 1857, by Merrill. It was next won by that good horse Rramlde. ridden by James Me-I -iHghlin. in the gnat American Stallion Stakes, at Louisville, in 1S77. Presented to the Coney Island Jockey Club. Brambles owners, the Messrs. Dwyer. brought the Vase east and presented it to the Conev Island Jockey Club. In 1883 F. Cebhards Eole added his name to the list of its illustrious winners, by defeating Bushwhacker, for the race, at four miles. The peerless Miss Woodford then won it two years in succession. The Vase was not offered again until 1893, when it was won by Pickpocket, and later by the great Raceland. In 1894 Sir Excess lieat Ranquet and was in turn lieaten by Banquet, in two races, for the Vase, at Jerome Iark. The aaxt Contest for the Vase was at Morris Bark, in 1901, when Gold Heels won it. In 1902 Advance Juard was the winner. Finally, in 1903 and 1904, Short Hose duplicated Miss Woodfords record by winning the Vase twice, consecutively. Ky the victories of Short Hose, the Wise became the property of Thomas Clyde, who has now, in the interest of sjKirt. presented it to the Maryland Jockey Club, to be added to the Pivakness of 1917. and aa make this valuable piece of plate more historic in value, if such a thing be possible, by associating it. in years to come, with the victories of many illustrious thoroughbreds. Secretary Riggs Prescribes Conditions. "It is our thought." writes secretary William I*. Riggs of the Maryland Jockey Club, "that a trophy of such unique importance should not again become private propel ty. in the sense that it may be withdrawn from competi. ion indefinitely. We believe if its successive winners, hereafter, shall be required, each in his turn, within one year from his coining into possession of tin- Vase, to offer it again, through any reputable raiing association, and for a suitable race, the Vase will pass back and forth, north, south, east and west, ever growing in value, and in time, let us hope, reviving some, at least, of the sectional rivalries that lent such intense interest to racing in the good days when it was more of a sjiort and less of a business. "Subject to his willingness to execute a contract with us." the letter continues, "the form of which is now being prepared by our counsel, and the purpose of which wil be merely to assure the offering of the Vase as a prize, at race courses to be selected by the successive winners, each in turn, at least once a year, within the United States, and iinilei suitable conditions, vve will present the Wood-lawn Vase to the winner of the Preakness, for three-year-aids, one and one-eighth miles, penalties and allowances. 9and.PM added. $]O0 to the winner to start. Entry five. Closes April 2. 1917." The other events tti be decided at the spring meeting of the Maryland Jockey Club at Pimlico comprise: The Pimlico Spring Handicap, for throo-yeur-olds and upward, one mile and seventv yards, ,r 00 added. The Green Spring Valley Steeplechase, for four-year-olds and upward, two miles. ,000 added. The Spring Juvenile, for two-year-olds, four and a half furlongs. ,000 added. All entries free, closing April 2. 1917.
